2011 End-of-year Women's Rugby Union Tests
The 2011 end of year women's rugby tests was a series of women's rugby union matches. New Zealand women's national rugby union team, New Zealand toured the Northern Hemisphere, according to a three-year international test agreement signed between Rugby Football Union, RFU and New Zealand Rugby Union, NZRU in August 2011: England would host three tests in the autumn of 2011 and 2012 before heading to New Zealand for three further matches in June 2013, just a year before the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. Before competing with the world champions New Zealand, England played against France women's national rugby union team, France twice: the first game wasn't an uncapped match, while the second was a full international test. France also contested a game with Italy national women's rugby union team, Italy. Scotland national women's rugby union team, Scotland travelled to Amsterdam to take on the Netherlands women's national rugby union team, Netherlands after finishing last at this year' ...
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Rugby Union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people of all genders, ages and sizes. In 2014, there were more than 6 million people playing worldwide, of whom 2.36 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, and currently has 101 countries as full members and 18 associate members. In 1845, the first laws were written by students attending Rugby School; other significant even ...
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